Middlefield Banc Corp. ( MBCN ) shares are trading higher on Wednesday after the company penned an all-stock merger agreement with Farmers National Banc Corp. ( FMNB ) valued at $299 million. Shareholders of Middlefield will receive 2.6 shares of Farmers’ common stock for each share of Middlefield common stock they own. The transaction values Middlefield at approximately $36.17 per...

Geneva, Switzerland , Oct. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- “1 Billion Players. One Tap to Play.” AlphaTON backs gaming where distribution already lives—inside Telegram—pairing funding, launch support, and partner access for BGA studios. Image: https://blockchainwire.s3.amazonaws.com/f20b4474e18aabcf6e724a8df90f5e70/editor_image/1761143535023.jpeg AlphaTON Capital ( ATON ) today announced it has joined the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) as part of its expanding focus on Telegram/TON gaming. The move follows AlphaTON’s recently...

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit ( RDDT ) sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train Perplexity's AI-based search engine. Reddit ( RDDT ) said in the complaint that Perplexity circumvented its data-protection measures in order to steal the data...

PARIS/ROME (Reuters) -Europe's aerospace giants kept investors waiting an extra day for details of a new space champion on Wednesday as lawyers and advisers pored over the smallprint, but merger plans remained intact, people familiar with the talks said. Reuters reported this week that Airbus, Thales and Leonardo had reached a framework deal to pool their satellite making activities to...